Technology & Media

Marcus Evans Group

Global media, corporate marketing and information company boosts online availability with Total Uptime.

Marcus Evans is a global, multifaceted media, corporate marketing and information company

employing 3000 professionals in 59 worldwide locations. Their core focus is providing businesses with the insights and contacts they need to grow. Their B2B Events portfolio includes over 500 summits and conferences annually across all industry sectors and their professional training division provides customers with access to the world’s leading technical experts on a truly global basis as well as supporting business language and cultural training needs.

Total Uptime immediately understood our needs and implemented a solution that was exactly what Marcus Evans was looking for.

Martin Leedham

CIO

Challenge

Website & Exchange Availability

Marcus Evans needed to route traffic from its primary data center to a secondary site during outages or maintenance without updating DNS.

This applied to more than a dozen corporate websites and a multi-site Microsoft Exchange environment used by thousands of employees.

DDoS Protection

The company’s websites periodically experienced large DDoS attacks that could overwhelm servers or ISP connections.

Standard firewall appliances were not sufficient to provide the required level of mitigation.

Complex Global VPN

With 59 locations worldwide, managing a full mesh of VPN connections had become increasingly difficult.

Changes at one office could require updates across multiple VPN appliances, making disaster recovery and business continuity more complex.

Solution

Total Uptime addressed all three challenges with a combination of Layer 7 cloud load balancing, automated failover, DDoS mitigation, and Multicloud Networking.

High Availability & Failover

Layer 7 cloud load balancing and custom monitoring dynamically route traffic to the alternate site when primary servers become unavailable or overwhelmed.

Layer 7 DDoS Protection

When traffic thresholds are reached, automated mitigation challenges excess connections to distinguish legitimate users from malicious bot traffic.

Multicloud Networking

Three virtual VPN appliances across the US, Europe, and Asia Pacific regions provide connectivity through a single anycast-based cloud Virtual IP.

Results

Higher Availability

Traffic can automatically move to an alternate site when primary servers become unavailable.

DDoS Protection

Automated Layer 7 mitigation helps protect websites from malicious traffic.

Simplified VPN Management

59 office connections were replaced with centralized cloud-based routing.

Business Continuity

Cloud-based failover and global networking support disaster recovery across primary and secondary data centers.

Products Used

Cloud Failover

Increase Application Availability

Cloud Load Balancing

Distribute traffic to any cloud or device with full control.

Multicloud Networking

Build a mesh of networks between sites anywhere.

Prevent your next outage today!

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